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Theocritean, a.|θɪɒkrɪˈtiːən|
[f. L. Theocritus, a. Gr. θεόκριτος Theocritus, a Greek poet of Sicily, of the 3rd c. b.c.: cf. Sophoclean a.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Theocritus or his writings, esp. his pastoral poetry; of the style of Theocritus; hence pastoral, idyllic. Also Theˈocritan a.
1846T. Keightley Notes Bucolics Virgil 73 He [sc. Virgil] was thoroughly imbued with the Theocritean poetry. 1879[see bucolicism]. 1896McClure's Mag. VI. 467/2 With his [sc. Corot's] Theocritan spirit, he could see the fountain of Jouvence in the woods of Sèvres. 1910Daily News 17 Oct. 3 All this is more real and more grim than Arcadia, but even Arcadia had its reality, and there is something of Theocritean sweetness penetrating the intimate truth of this book. 1935L. MacNeice Eclogue by Five-Barred Gate in Poems 24, I am a shepherd of the Theocritean breed. 1969V. de S. Pinto City that Shone xii. 293 A Theocritean flavour was given to our courtship by the fact that Irène had two white goats. |